I left a teaser in my first post of the day… sorry about that, but it wasn’t to mess with you! I just couldn’t keep adding more goodness to it, when the goodness I wanted to add deserved its OWN feature! You understand, right? Hopefully I’ll be able to make amends with all that follows…

Here’s some of the most lovely wedding inspiration I’ve ever seen. In my life. And I’m in my mid-20′s.

… Plus a year or two.

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We begin with a rather exquisite invitation suite…

A few ribbons of seating cards, hung from gilded branches…

A cake into which I wouldn’t want to have to be the first to cut…

A lovely altar, above which hangs the couple’s monogram…

Another cake, same story as above…

And some gold and aqua jewelry. Not too shabby.

Lovely stuff, am I right? I found it over at Martha Stewart Weddings, of course. Specifically, “The Golden Touch” gallery.

I’m gushing over this next one, which is – omigosh – a WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY GIVEAWAY! My sister talks to her little boy like that to get him interested in activities when she isn’t confident the interest will come about naturally. Funny, because I’m confident about this one…

Love it! How great are wedding photography giveaways?!! About as great as free flourishes, I’d say, yes I would. The photographers offering this amazing package, which I discovered via Emmaline Bride, are Andy Stenz and Jamie M. Swanson. Thank you, Andy and Jamie. You are stupendous and on behalf of brides everywhere, I extend my deepest appreciation for doing something so wonderful.

Oh, speaking of wedding photography earlier… here’s today’s uber-cute collection, which I found here, within the my heaven on Earth, flickr.

How great is that? The bride is seriously pulling off that stunner of a dress, and you know I’m a sucker for a good dessert table. Oh, and by the way, it looks like that mustache trend is here to stay, brides and grooms. Feel free to get on board! So, while we’ve got a bunch of trends going on, that lime green, canary yellow and baby soft bluish-green is so crazy beautiful and unique, it makes the whole thing look quite fresh and new. That color scheme is mega-inspiring!

Also found this photographic beauty there, which I’ve seen a million times in every magazine I own and have been meaning to scan, myself, for I don’t even know how long. So glad I found it on flickr! It’s just so intense! Love it.

Alright everyone, here we go. I’m practically hyperventilating over these finds, today. Go get a brown paper bag in case you begin to experience some shallow breathing…

The Wedding Chicks have outdone themselves with this find right here. They’ve brought us one of the most beautiful wedding paper templates I’ve eva seen. Eva. It’s beautiful, it’s got that oh-so-popular vintage look we’re all after these days… it’s EPIC… and, best of all, it’s a freebie.

Hello, Photo Save the Date Calendar Cards freebie. So nice to meet you on this fine day. I have been hoping you’d arrive one day. You’re everything I’ve ever wanted, and I’d like to share you with all of my friends and family…

Not only are you beautiful… you’re customizable, too! Seriously, you need to stop it – you’re spoiling us. (Don’t stop – I didn’t mean it.)

It was this last sample of the template in action that led me to that superfantabulous freebie (freeby?) discovery above…

The couple in that picture share a love for a certain board game…

… ditto for the FH and me. I admit to thinking, on occasion, about how to infuse a little bit of the game we both enjoy so much into the wedding. But everything I’ve brainstormed has been too Scrabble-y for my taste. Enter: the engagement photo session of Julia and George, by Bend the light photography. What did they do? They broke out a game of Scrabble for the shoot! So simple – I can’t believe I didn’t think of this!

Your magazines are among the only ones I keep, for years past the date printed on the cover. Why? Because the ideas that line the glossy pages of each and every issue you make are the kind that will never go out of style. And these ideas right here – which I rediscovered while flipping through the pages of an oldie-but-goodie during a recent cross-country flight – are precisely what I mean…

LOVE TYPOGRAPHY. Now, I know I say “I love” about a lot of things – but with Typography, I mean it.

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If Typography had been a character on Saved by the Bell, it would have been Zack Morris (I realize it would make more sense as Jessie Spano, but… c’mon). And, if asked to stay on the cast as the show inevitably transitioned into Saved by the Bell: The College Years, Typography would have respectfully bowed out, because that would have been a bad career move. A real step down for Typography.

Especially since there are so many opportunities for Typography. It doesn’t need Saved by the Bell: The College Years.

For example, check out its starring role in the brilliant – and may I add, quite funny – Jessica Hische‘s Daily Drop Cap. She creates the most stunning designs with the letters in our alphabet. Here are some of my favorites (but hardly all of them; I strongly suggest visiting her site for the full experience):

And her super creative “Q,” which is quite possibly my favorite of the bunch…

How AMAZING are these letters? Here we have one of the illustrative letter sets she displays on her site – which, again, I highly recommend you visit…

I have so much fun with pretty letters; here I spelled out two of my favorite words:

and

Jessica Hische, you are fabulous.

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Love it and want more of it? Check out this post for another small dose of Typography Love…